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Spurs Suffered An Own Goal When Aaron Lennon Kicked The Ball Off Gareth Bale's Face

Tottenham Hotspur holds a 2-1 advantage over Liverpool as of this writing, and Spurs players Aaron Lennon and Gareth Bale are responsible for all three goals; they each have one for their own team, and they contributed to put the ball in their own net in an ill-fated attempt to clear a Steven Gerr...

The Most Exciting Action Of The Weekend Was In This Kids Relay Race

Even without betting on them, the races and games held during stoppages in play of sporting events are often the most thrilling action of the day; it's possible I miss the mites games between periods more than anything else during the NHL lockout. This relay race, from half time of yesterday's Sou...

Man City Star Kolo Toure Carried On Affair For Two Years, Pretended He Was A Car Salesman Named Francois

This is just amazing. Stuck in our American-centric sports sphere, we often forget the mega-popularity of soccer and by extension the fame of those who play the game. Kolo Toure earns £90,000 a week. That is approximately $145,000 american dollars. A week. In other words, he's a big star. The kind ...

Turkish Soccer Team Hath Summoned The Prince Of Darkness [UPDATE: Never Mind, We Were Had By Photoshop]

Update: Turns out none of this ever happened. The photo above is actually an altered version of this photo, which was taken at the Estadio De Luz in Lisbon. Our souls are safe again....

Shakhtar Donetsk Is Not Ukrainian For "Good Sportsmanship," Takes Advantage Of Injured Player To Score Equalizer

In a stunt that has soccer traditionalists around the globe shaking their heads, today's UEFA Champions League match between Nordsjælland and Shakhtar Donetsk is bathed in controversy as Shakhtar's Willian took advantage of a drop-ball to fire a long-range pass to Luiz Adriano who raced past a baff...

Snoop Lion Wants To Buy A Stake In A Scottish Premier League Team

According to the Daily Record, rapper Snoop Lion (yes, that is the same person as Snoop Dogg), is interested in owning a piece of Celtic FC of the Scottish Premier League. What, you didn't know that Snoop was a big soccer fan? Well, for your information, he most definitely kind of is....

Here Is A Tornado Destroying A Portuguese Soccer Stadium

A tornado tore through southern Portugal yesterday, scoring a direct hit on Estádio Dr. Francisco Vieira, home of lower-division club Silves FC. The stadium is reported to have suffered "severe damage."...

Boston College Suspends Women's Soccer Player For Tweeting Penn State Sandusky Jokes

Boston College is scheduled to play at Penn State tonight in the second round of the NCAA women's soccer tournament. Stephanie McCaffrey, a sophomore and a second-team all-ACC forward who had scored a goal in BC's first-round win over Hofstra, prepared for the trip to State College by tweeting a bun...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic's Long-Range Bicycle Kick Goal Is A Truly Astounding Athletic Feat

There are no words for this, Sweden's capping goal in their 4-2 friendly win over England today. We could try and explain that it really didn't mean anything, because the outcome was already decided and the match had no implications anyway other than vaguely affecting Sweden and England's FIFA ra...

Michael Bradley Scored A Goal With This Nifty Right-Footed Volley

The US and Russian men's national soccer teams fought to a 2-2 draw this afternoon in an international friendly at Russia's Kuban Stadium. Michael Bradley's impressive marker you see above knotted the game at 1-1 in the 76th minute. If his dad was still the coach, Michael definitely would have bee...

Our pal Noah Davis on the untold story behind the Third Reich's final soccer championship....

Former NFLer Jerramy Stevens Arrested After Alleged Domestic Assault Involving Hope Solo; No Charges Will Be Filed [UPDATE]

Details are still rolling in, but check out this series of tweets that started going around in the last few minutes from Chris Daniels, a reporter for KING-TV in Seattle, which you can see below....

Do Foreign Footballers Really Dive More?

This Regressing entry is brought to you by our clever friends at the Harvard College Sports Analysis Collective. Today: how Premier League diving might be a cultural phenomenon....

MLS Couldn't Dig Itself Out Of The Snow Or Its Own Ass [UPDATE]

The weather had already shafted DC United. The higher seed, they lost homefield advantage when MLS switched the legs of their home-and-home with the Red Bulls because the New York area was still cleaning up after Hurricane Sandy. It wasn't fair, and United fans were pissed, but it's hard to see that...

A Week Into The Month, Alexi Lalas Wins Movember

While literary types may know November as the month to write crappy novels, those of us of the hirsute persuasion know it simply as Movember. While many of us have significant others whose aversion to upper lip hair preclude participation, it seems ESPN soccer commentator Alexi Lalas is not one of ...

Oscar's Long-Range Volley Gave Chelsea A Halftime Lead

Brazilian wunderkind Oscar is off to a fantastic start for Chelsea, leading the Blues with extraordinary goals in UEFA Champions League play. We featured one of them a few weeks ago, but we're also impressed with his goal today against Shakhtar Dontesk. Sure, keeper Andriy Pyatov is mostly to blame...

On The Cusp Of Elimination, Manchester City Supporters Had No Answers

Reigning English Premier League champions Manchester City have struggled representing their nation in Champions League play, and a loss to Dutch side Ajax yesterday would have eliminated them from the competition entirely. That loss looked increasingly likely after Siem de Jong's early brace put Aj...

Women's Soccer Player Tries To Waste Time By Throwing The Ball Directly At Her Opponent's Face, Twice

The first time the Amherst player throws it in off the Colby player's face, you figure it's an accident. Maybe trying to play it off her torso to herself? Whatever, she apologizes, and tries again. And then, bam, you realize you're watching a true NESCAC blood feud. Amherst defender Emily Little w...

Liverpool Fans Get Drenched When Faulty Sprinkler Goes Off At Halftime

"You know what would be fun? A football match," one might say to a friend. "Let's get tickets and go," a friend might respond. "It'll be a nice day and there would be absolutely no chance of us getting soaked to the bone by some random, malfunctioning sprinkler positioned right at the edge of the pi...

Everything About Soccer Is Racist

Soccer! John Terry? Racist. A referee, maybe racist. This fan? Totally racist. Everyone's racist. Chelsea is complicated....